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Can't OC's DAs, Public Defenders and Judges All Just Get Along?

Inside Superior Court Judge William R. Froeberg's spacious 10th-floor Santa Ana courtroom on June 20, Richard Raymond Ramirez—a silent, body-chained, convicted killer—sat peacefully, an illusion masking monstrous sensibilities. Though waiting for the penalty phase of his most recent 2013 trial for raping, sodomizing and fatally stabbing a woman 19 times outside a Garden Grove bar …

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The Definitive Guide to All 15 Burrito Styles Available in the United States

This past week, I hosted ESPN's burrito correspondent, Anna Maria Barry Jester of the company's FiveThirtyEight data-mining site. We ate at Athenian Burgers #3 in Buena Park, which is a competitor in FiveThirtyEight's epic Burrito Bracket competition that seeks to find the greatest burrito in America by facing off Yelp stats versus actual critics. Anna …

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The Internet's Own Boy Is an Urgent Heartbreaker

In January 2013, an incandescently brilliant American political activist and computer programmer named Aaron Swartz was hounded to suicide by the overzealous U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, Carmen Ortiz. Anyone who argues differently has a desk drawer full of government paystubs. Brian Knappenberger's The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz connects the dots of …

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Zoraida Reyes, Transgender DREAMer Activist: Death Deemed “Suspicious;” Vigil TONIGHT

The death of a transgender activist who fought against deportations that break up same-sex couples is being investigated as suspicious, according to the Anaheim Police Department. ] The body of 28-year-old Zoraida Reyes was discovered around 10:50 a.m. Thursday in the parking lot behind a Dairy Queen in the 200 block of North State College …

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Dana Rohrabacher Tweets His Love for New Strongman Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

The official results of Egypt's elections aren't going to be announced until next week, but the winning candidate couldn't be clearer. Exit polls show former Egyptian military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi taking a Hosni Mubarak-like landslide victory with over 90% of the vote over his sole opponent. The election is under intense scrutiny with a …

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Drunken Driving Arrests Were Up in OC Over Memorial Day Weekend But No DUI Deaths

See the update at the end of this post with results from the anti-DUI enforcement by 38 Orange County law enforcement agencies over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. ORIGINAL POST, MAY 23, 6:05 A.M.: Orange County's “Avoid the 38 DUI Task Force”–the number referring to how many law enforcement agencies are part of it–is literally …

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Alaina and Kevin A'Lurede Likely Died of Suicides in Their La Habra Duplex: Police

Click here for the update on police believing this incident WAS a murder-suicide. ORIGINAL POST, MAY 28, 7:09 A.M.: Some holiday weekend, no? We previously reported on a possible murder-suicide with four bodies found in a family's home in Mission Viejo. At the opposite end of Orange County, in La Habra, police are investigating the …

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